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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Good idea, Thanks Stephen<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/07/2013 09:17 PM, Stephen wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Slackware is a solid distribution. Look up slapt-get
it will give you some of the apt get functionality you liked. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2013 7:24 PM, "Derek Trotter"
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MS">This happened often enough that I'm sure the machine
was locking up. Video playback stopped. So did music.
Any game I might have been playing stopped. It wouldn't
respond to pings. Ctrl+alt+delete did nothing. Ctrl+f1
did nothing. Trust me. It locked up. Slackware just
works. Even though I have to compile some programs and
this takes some time, in the end, they work. I won't mess
with the other distros. Also the others had trouble
identifying and configuring either the audio, video or
both. Kubuntu would ID the monitor and give me 1600x900,
but I had to mess with the audio. Debian would get the
audio right, but it acted as if the monitor was 4x3. The
others had varying problems. Once I got the audio and
video working, I'd install vlc and there was trouble with
it playing audio correctly and resuming audio playback
after pausing and unpausing. <br>
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When I installed slackware and ran it the first time, the
video was correctly configures and so was the audio. When
I installed vlc, it played audio when resuming playback
after pausing. I'll stick with slackware as long as I
have this machine. When I eventually get another, I'll
try the others again. I really liked being able to type
in apt-get install whatever and have it running a minute
or two later. But that doesn't do me much good if I can't
watch a Firefly episode all the way through.<br>
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I'm sure slackware isn't for everybody, but I'm glad it's
there.<br>
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Derek<br>
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<div>On 01/07/2013 05:57 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Just curious; are you sure that it
was actually locking up? It might be that something was
making the X server become unresponsive, but the machine,
as a whole, was just fine. <br>
Recently my machine was "locking up" a lot, but it would
only do it when I was listing to music. It turned out
that there is a bug in Amarok that if it tries to play an
MP3 file that has 0 size. that it would crash, and it
turns out that if it crashes after the screen has blanked
that things go bonkers and nothing responds. <br>
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...but it turns out that I could still ssh into my machine
from another computer and investigate what was broken.
Turns out that when I went to recover a bunch of MP3 files
from some CDs that were about 20 years old that when it
couldn't recover the file it just wrote out the name of
the file with nothing in it. <br>
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In any case, I've found that Linux almost never locks up,
it just becomes unresponsive from the desktop, to the
point that CTRL+ALT+F1 won't ever do anything for you, but
ssh/telnet will almost always get you into the machine and
let you identify and kill what is causing the problem. <br>
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The only reason I mention this is that is you find that
Slackware won't do it for you in the long run, there may
be hope in getting one of your previous distros to work
for you. <br>
<br>
Brian Cluff <br>
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On 01/07/2013 02:42 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Some of you might remember of the
last few months me posting about my <br>
system locking up running linux. This last Saturday
marked my system <br>
running slackware for a whole week without locking up
once. Before this <br>
I had tried Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and Centos. <br>
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I'm guessing Slackware has something the other distros
I've tried don't <br>
or the others have something Slackware doesn't. There
has to be some <br>
difference. Any ideas what it is? <br>
<br>
Thanks <br>
Derek <br>
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